NicheDB MCP: real-time public data and feeds for your AI app

Hook NicheDB up to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect NicheDB free. There's no sign-in, so its tools are ready at once.
2. 2Most of NicheDB's tools look things up, such as `search_items` and `upcoming`. A few act on an account, like `create_feed`, `follow_feed` and `delete_webhook`, and need a NicheDB key; switch them off if your AI app should only read.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app what releases are coming up this month in a NicheDB collection, then look in Activity for the `upcoming` call.

Look things up in NicheDB

• Run a full-text search over item titles, summaries and tags with `search_items`.
• List future-dated items such as releases, launches and deadlines, soonest first, with `upcoming`.
• Get population and demography from country level down to a US ZIP code with `population`.
• Find where to buy a book by ISBN, or by title and author, with `where_to_buy_book`.

NicheDB's server has 42 tools; these are a few. The full list appears in ContextGate as soon as you add it.

Decide what NicheDB can change

• Switch off `create_webhook`, `update_webhook` and `delete_webhook`, and your AI app can't touch your account's webhook endpoints.
• Switch off `create_feed` and `follow_feed` if feeds should only be set up by a person.
• Activity records every NicheDB call, lookups and account changes alike.

What you get with NicheDB and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use NicheDBClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach NicheDB through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any NicheDB tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

NicheDB tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in NicheDB. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• statsWhat this deployment holds: collections, sources, items, items added today, feeds.
• list_collectionsThe collections (niches) with their source, feed and item counts.
• list_adaptersEvery adapter this deployment can run, with the config fields each takes. Use before add_source.
• list_enrichersEvery enricher (YouTube videos, Wikipedia, repo stats, downloads, company profiles, TL;DRs) and which collections turn it on by default. Items carry their resul
• list_sourcesSources with status, last run and item counts. Optionally one collection.
• list_feedsPublic feeds, most followed first. Optionally one collection.
• feed_itemsWhat a feed selects, newest first. Page with before_id.
• recent_itemsNewest items, optionally narrowed to a collection, source or kind.
• upcomingItems dated in the future (releases, launches, deadlines), soonest first.
• search_itemsFull-text search over titles, summaries and tags. Use this first when you know a name.
• match_itemsWhich title, channel or fixture is this name? Give a file name, a release name or a playlist entry ("Top.Gun.Maverick.2022.1080p.mkv", "US: ESPN2 HD"); it is cl
• get_itemOne item with its full adapter payload.
• populationPopulation and demography, drilled down from the world to the ZIP code. Give a `key` (us, us-ca, us-ca-los-angeles, gb, gb-england-london), a US `zip`, or a pla
• where_to_buy_bookWhere to buy a book. Give an `isbn` (10 or 13 digits, hyphens fine), or a `title` and `author`, or `item` (a books-collection item id). Answers with the edition
• create_feedSave a query as a feed (needs a key). Sources, kinds and tags narrow; q is a text match; upcoming keeps only future-dated items.
• follow_feedFollow a feed as the key owner (needs a key). Channels: webpush, email, webhook.
• list_webhooksThe key owner's account webhook endpoints (never their secrets) and the event types this site emits. Needs a key.
• create_webhookAdd an account webhook: signed POSTs (Standard Webhooks + CloudEvents) to an https URL for events such as feed.item.published (new items in feeds you follow), f
• update_webhookChange an account webhook: url, events, description, or enabled (true turns it back on and clears its failure count). Needs a key.
• delete_webhookRemove an account webhook and its delivery log. Needs a key.